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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1940

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